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Per Sean Callahan, we can't afford to pay top linemen

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Seems the price tag for a big dog is now $1.5 million minimum. We've swung and missed on several apparently.

Is anyone good friends with Buffett? We need that guy to get on board yesterday.

So why hasn’t Nebraska been able to land those difference-makers in the portal? The market is just too rich. “Why have we struggled to get transfer portal offensive linemen to come in?” Carriker asked. “Because we’ve been trying to get them.” Callahan is laying out just how steep the price tag is. “Call the elite tackles in the portal the ‘Unicorn tackles,’” per him. “And the market on those players is at least a million and a half for each of these guys, and it’s pushing $2 million now for some of them. So the amount of money it takes to get one of those six to eight unicorns is significant. Nebraska hosted three of them this year.” In other words, Nebraska’s efforts weren’t the issue—the financial arms race was.


 
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That's not what Sean said at all. He's on record, multiple times, saying Nebraska made market offers for these guys.

If you read the quotes in the article carefully, you'll notice bouncing between Adam and Sean and what each is saying. They're interlaced to make it appear that Sean said something he didn't.
 
That's not what Sean said at all. He's on record, multiple times, saying Nebraska made market offers for these guys.

If you read the quotes in the article carefully, you'll notice bouncing between Adam and Sean and what each is saying. They're interlaced to make it appear that Sean said something he didn't.

Ahhh, good catch. I read it that we aren’t paying good linemen a living wage.
 

BTW, I didn’t see anything in that piece that read anything other than NU is losing out because of the “financial arms race”.
There isn't in that piece, but that the author is wrong. Sean, and others, have confirmed over and over again that it isn't money on our end. We're willing to pay, and are paying, "going rates" for players.

We aren't the most funded, but we're high enough up there that it isn't a real concern.
 


Warren Buffett gets brought up every time someone discusses NIL money. Bottom line: The dude is tighter than an XS jacket. He's never going to support NU in the manner that some wish he would. He's still living in the same house he bought in the 50's for less than $40k.
He actually owns several other houses that he lives in more often, but yes he has his original Omaha house with some added features (guard/gate, etc...).
 
Warren Buffett gets brought up every time someone discusses NIL money. Bottom line: The dude is tighter than an XS jacket. He's never going to support NU in the manner that some wish he would. He's still living in the same house he bought in the 50's for less than $40k.
I think it's possible that Mr. Buffett chooses other outlets for his philanthopy. Kinda hard to criticize a guy who built his own business to the extent he did.

Let's face it, donating to football programs does very little to effect real problems - e.g., starvation, lack of medical services, general poverty. I'm as much a Husker fan as anyone, but I don't expect people to donate to Husker football just because they have money they've earned.

Now, I'll say, if I had Warren Buffett money, I'd toss a few sheckles Nebraska's way. :Lol:
 

In the next five years, the pay will normalize.

Either players will start taking much less or there will be significant investment across the board. Probably when the B1GSEC becomes its own league.
 


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